470 CLXIII. PALMED. (Beccari & Hook, f.) [D&monwops. 



23. D. oligrophyllus, Becc. mss. ; leaflets 10-12 in distant fascicles 

 elongate-oblanceolate with sebulose tips, costse 3 nearly naked on both 

 surfaces, sheath densely filamentously scurfy, internodes with 2-3 mem- 

 branous strongly nerved collars appressed to the sheath and densely 

 crinite, petiole biconvex margins obtuse rather closely armed with claws. 



FERAE, Scortechini. 



Founded on two flowerless specimens, neither of which have I seen. J.D.H. 



24. D. macrophyllus, Becc. ; leaflets 4 in 2 very distant pairs oblong- 

 lanceolate 20 by 4-5 in. with 7-8 acute naked costae, petiole 2 ft. biconvex, 

 armed with 2-3-fid spines, sheaths f-f in. diam. with 3-4 membranous 

 collars. 



PEBAK ; Scortechini. 



Founded on a single flowerless specimen, which I have not seen. J.D.H. 



25. D. verticillaris, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 329, t. 175, iii. t. 

 72, f. vi., vii. ; leaflets many equidistant ensiform setaceously acuminate, 

 margins and costaa very sparingly setulose, sheath armed with whorls 

 of very long flat weak spines alternating with whorls of confluent black 

 bristles, lower spathe thinly coriaceous densely crinite with series of 

 fascicled black bristles, male spadix slender, spikes sub-erect slender, 

 flowers minute densely crowded in two collateral series, fruit small sessile 

 globose. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 99 ; Walp. Ann. iii. 478 ; v. 828. Calamus 

 verticillaris, Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 63 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 73, t. 

 200 A, B, C, D. 



MALACCA, Griffith. PEBAK, Scortechini ; at Larut and Goping, King's Collector 

 (576, 6388). 



Stem 20-40 ft. scandent, sheaths about 1 in. diam. Leaves 5-15 ft. ; leaflets 

 10-18 by f-1 in. ; rachis flagelliferous, armed dorsal ly with multifid claws ; petiole 

 stout, armed below with half whorls of pale flat weak spines 1-5 in. long, and short 

 black bristles ; sheath with similar long flat pale erect spreading or deflexed spines, 

 closely alternating with comb-like whorls of densely compacted black -tipped bristles 

 confluent into stiff laminae in. deep. Lower spathe 2-3 ft., with a long narrow 

 point; bristles |-1 in. long, in closely packed whorls, black, shining ; upper spathe 

 quite or nearly smooth. Spadix 2 ft. long, scurfy, decompound, male rather con- 

 tracted, fern, with spreading branches, peduncle unarmed. Male spikes f-1 in.; 

 spathellule cupular, acute. Flowers distichous, horizontal, most densely packed; 

 calyx cupular, obscurely toothed ; petals twice as long. Fern, spikes 3-4 in. Fruit 

 in. diam., top conical, scales whitish faintly channelled, margins brown. Seed 

 globose, albumen deeply ruminate. 



*** Outer spathe acutely 2-keeled, keel alone setose. Leaf sheaths 

 armed with flat spines confluent in an annular spinulose crest. 



26. D. g-eniculatus, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 329 ; leaflets scattered 

 or in groups of 3-7 elongate ensiform tips filiform very long, costao 3-5 

 smooth or more or less setulose, margins smooth, petiole stout armed to- 

 wards the base with simple and compound very long white flat stiff spines, 

 mouth of sheath with a few similar spines and a brush of needle-like 

 bristles below which is a thick ring of confluent bristles, outer spathe 

 lanceolate, spadix much branched, male fl. densely crowded in collateral 

 series, fruit subglobose shortly stoutly beaked. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 93 ; 

 Walp. Ann. iii. 478, v. 828. Calamus geniculatus, Griff, in Gale. Journ. 

 Nat. 'Hist. v. 67 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 77, t. 202, A, B ; Miq. Palm. Archip. Ind. 

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